It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at the meeting of two heavenward lines, one drawn from Bethany along the Ascent of the Messias, the other from Jerusalem against the Descent of the Paraclete. That measurement, the measurement of eternity in operation, of the bright cloud and the rushing wind, is, in effect, theology.